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....” He added that he agreed with the council’s decision to disband. Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of General Electric, who had previously said on Monday that he would not step down from the manufacturing advisory board, put out a statement on Wednesday afternoon announcing that he had resigned. ...
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....” He added that he agreed with the council’s decision to disband. Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of General Electric, who had previously said on Monday that he would not step down from the manufacturing advisory board, put out a statement on Wednesday afternoon announcing that he had resigned. ...

....6bn for 2016, the biggest in its history. In May, Fallon, who has faced calls to step down, encountered a massive shareholder revolt with almost 70% voting against, or failing to support by abstention, his £1. ...

....Both had been vocal critics of the firm, which on Thursday released its annual report before the annual meeting next month. The future of chairman Keith Hellawell hangs in the balance after he promised to step down if most of the minority shareholders did not back his re-election. ...

....Karren Brady, the West Ham United chief executive and regular on The Apprentice, is to take over as chair of Sir Philip Green’s retail empire as Anthony Grabiner steps down. Lord Grabiner, who has spent 15 years at the head of Taveta, is to step down with immediate effect. ...

....6m of additional share awards after complaints from shareholder advisory groups. Peace, who has signalled he will step down by the end of next year, said after the AGM: “My job is to work with the board and remuneration committee to do what’s right for the longer term. ...

.... Although critics were quick to argue these were about PR damage control more than meaningful accountability. It began when numerous women accused prominent venture capitalist Justin Caldbeck of sexual harassment, prompting the Binary Capital co-founder to step down. ...

....“In terms of potential remedies, should the issues arise we continue to think Fox could revisit a spinoff of Sky News, as it did with the original bid for Sky in 2010-11,” said Polo Tang, an analyst at UBS, in a recent note to investors. “Separately, James Murdoch could step down as chairman of Sky, but remain chief executive of Fox. ...

....If Kalanick does get asked to temporarily step away from the firm, he may also return to a role with less authority. But asking the executive to step down entirely is almost impossible for the board. ...

.... The group doesn’t even have the requisite two independent non-executive directors to challenge him. Activist investor Gatemore Capital says no one has a “God-given right” to run a company and he should step down or run a transparent sale process. ...

....Moix, who was appointed in February, has been accused of trying to hinder an investigation into fraud involving senior PP members in the Madrid region. Despite his insistence that he had done nothing wrong, opposition parties had been vocal in their calls for him to step down. ...

.... Several of the senators who confirmed his appointment were ministerial colleagues – including Jucá, and the head of the upper house, Renan Calheiros – who have been charged in the Car Wash case. When a supreme court judge ordered Calheiros to step down while he was awaiting trial, Calheiros simply ignored him. ...

....The Bank’s monetary policy committee (MPC) has eight members from the usual nine after deputy governor Charlotte Hogg was forced to resign in March for failing to declare her brother works for Barclays. External MPC member Kristin Forbes is also due to step down in June, while chief economist Andrew Haldane’s term ends next week. ...

....McDonnell also reflected on Friday’s local election results, in which the party lost more than 300 council seats, and mayoral elections in two of its traditional heartlands, Tees Valley and the West Midlands. On the BBC’s Andrew Marr show, McDonnell called the results “really disappointing” but refused to say whether he and Corbyn would step down if Labour loses the general election on 8 June. ...

....But he said they would fight "for every vote" and predicted it would be "a young people's election as much as anything". Asked whether he and party leader Jeremy Corbyn would step down if Labour lose, he said: "We are not contemplating any loss. ...

....In 2012, Sir Martin Sorrell, the chief executive of WPP, suffered a humiliating defeat when nearly 60% of investors rejected his pay packet at the company’s annual general meeting. In a bid to placate investors, Fallon, who has faced calls to step down, has invested his bonus in Pearson shares as a show of confidence. ...

....At 72, even with a new baby to deal with, Sorrell’s health and indefatigable work ethic seem to make the issue of age irrelevant. Indeed, gerontocracies are common in medialand: Rupert Murdoch is 86, Barry Diller is 75, as is Sorrell’s erstwhile adversary Maurice Lévy, who this summer will step down as chief executive of Publicis, the world’s third-largest advertising company. ...

....United typically oversells flights by less than 3% of the plane’s seat capacity to account for no-shows. The company’s chief executive, Oscar Munoz, who took the helm in 2015 as part of an effort to improve customer relations, faced calls to step down after referring to Dao as “disruptive and belligerent” in a statement following the incident. ...

.... Tyrie said to the governor there had been a “deliberate attempt to frighten the voting public by the Bank with a political motive”. His latest victim was Charlotte Hogg, who will step down as one of Threadneedle Street’s deputy governors later this week after her failure to disclose details of a potential conflict of interest to the committee led to her resignation. ...

....The appointment breaks an HSBC tradition of appointing insiders to the chairmanship. One of his first jobs will be to find a replacement for Stuart Gulliver, the chief executive of HSBC, who plans to step down next year. ...

....Capita, the outsourcing company that operates the London congestion charge, has said its chief executive is stepping down after it reported a big fall in profits. The firm said Andy Parker would step down later this year once a replacement had been found. ...

.... In the years since, the grocer has been battered by the discounters and by the move to online and convenience shopping. Leahy’s successor, Philip Clarke, was forced to step down after a series of profit warnings and the grocer was then engulfed in an accounting scandal that is still the subject of a Serious Fraud Office investigation. ...

....John Fallon, the chief executive of Pearson, admitted that the company “got a few calls wrong” at its US business last year, including a belief that college enrolments would stabilise and the huge impact of students renting books through services such as Amazon. He rejected suggestions that he should step down as chief executive but said he would start meeting with disgruntled shareholders in the coming days. ...

.... Ashley’s majority stake did not count towards the independent vote on Hellawell’s re-election at the first meeting. Hellawell has said he will step down at Sports Direct’s next annual meeting if he does not win the support of the majority of independent shareholders again. ...

....”. At the previous vote in September, Hellawell tried to assuage disgruntlement among investors by promising to step down at the 2017 annual meeting if he did not win the support of independent investors again. ...

....Cousins has led Compass for almost 11 years, but this is not the first time he has left a non-executive position unexpectedly. In December 2013, the health, hygiene and home products group Reckitt Benckiser announced Cousins would step down as a non-executive director because he was “assuming an increasingly day-to-day operational role as chief executive of Compass” and this would “impact on his ability to devote sufficient time to his role as a non-executive director of RB”. ...

. Sports Direct’s embattled chairman, Keith Hellawell, has come under renewed pressure to step down as a series of City investment groups said shareholders should oppose his re-election to the retailer’s board this week. ...

.... Philip Bier acted as managing director while Emma Bier was head of design and marketing. However, the Biers have now sold their stake in Tiger Retail to Zebra for an undisclosed amount and will step down from the company. ...

....The head of Japan’s biggest advertising agency is to resign, as prosecutors launch an investigation into his firm for enforcing excessive overtime after an overworked employee took her own life. Tadashi Ishii, the president of Dentsu, said he would step down next month, just over a year after Matsuri Takahashi killed herself at a company dormitory in a case Japanese authorities classified as karoshi, or death from overwork. ...

....”. After the referendum result is confirmed, with share prices crashing and David Cameron announcing his intention to step down as prime minister, Carney insisted: “We are well prepared for this. ...

....”. A notice to shareholders published late on Friday made clear that if Hellawell is re-elected in January, but subsequently does not receive the support of a majority of independent shareholders at the next annual general meeting in September 2017, he will “step down at that time with immediate effect. ...

....The allegations threatened to interrupt Puzder’s work as a prominent lawyer for then Missouri governor John Ashcroft’s taskforce on abortion. When news of Henning’s accusations were published, Puzder offered to step down from the organization because he didn’t “want to be an embarrassment to the governor or an impediment to the work of the taskforce”. ...

....Mr Trump now uses his own plane, but as president he would travel aboard Air Force One, which is equipped with special safety, defensive and communications equipment. He is known for his admiration of his Trump-branded Boeing 757 jet, boasting to Rolling Stone last year that his aircraft was "bigger than Air Force One, which is a step down from this in every way". ...

....The Bank of England does not have any role in the Brexit negotiations with the EU but can provide technical assistance to the UK government. Mr Carney, who is due to step down in 2019, has been robust in defence of Bank's operational independence since June's referendum. ...

....Mitie’s shares fell as much as 18% in early trading and were down 7% at 194p after lunch. McGregor-Smith, who has run Mitie for almost 10 years, announced soon after the first profit warning that she would step down. ...

....Dennis, 69, quit after being told by fellow shareholders on Tuesday that he must give up his position as chairman and chief executive of McLaren Group. He did not want to step down and failed in a High Court bid last week to prevent McLaren putting him on 'gardening leave'. ...

....Donald Trump has said that if he becomes president, he will hand control of his business empire to Ivanka and her brothers, Don and Eric. If Hillary Clinton wins the race for the White House, the intention is for her and husband Bill to step down from the board of the Clinton Foundation and for Chelsea, currently its vice-chair, to take over its day-to-day operations. ...

....During fierce criticism from a panel of US senators, Wells Fargo chief executive John Stumpf was told to resign over a bogus accounts scandal. Senator Elizabeth Warrren told Mr Stumpf he should step down as his bank had "squeezed" its employees "so they would cheat customers". ...

....Shareholder Hermes also said it would vote against the reappointment of Mr Hellawell. "When we've met him he always comes across as an individual with the highest integrity [but] we believe now is the time for him to step down and be replaced by a strong, credible individual with strong experience of chairing a FTSE company," Leon Kamhi, the head of responsibility at Hermes Investment Management, told the BBC. ...

....She has since accused the Labour-dominated council of turning a blind eye to the problem because of “their desire to accommodate a community that would be expected to vote Labour, to not rock the boat, to keep a lid on it, to hope it would go away”. Her success in holding politicians and institutions to account in the case of Rotherham is likely to be welcomed given previous chairs have had to step down over the links to establishment figures. ...

....They included Carlos Gutierrez, the former Commerce Secretary, and John Negroponte, the former Director of National Intelligence. A new poll showed one in five registered Republicans wanted Mr Trump to step down as the party's presidential nominee. ...

...." . In January Mr Rotheram was forced to step down from Labour's National Executive Committee after the parliamentary party voted overwhelmingly to bar Parliamentary Private Secretaries (PPS) from acting as the backbench representative on the body. ...

....Rousseff, 68, was jailed and tortured by the country's military regime in the 1970s when she belonged to an urban guerrilla group. Rousseff rode Lula's coattails to power when term limits forced him to step down in 2011. ...

. The Japanese emperor hinted that he wished to step down on Monday in an an unprecedented move which could see the first abdication in the country’s modern history and a complete overhaul of its imperial constitution. ...

.... . Instead the Union Buildings’ present occupant, President Jacob Zuma, who is halfway through his second term, faces intense pressure within the ANC to step down after a series of corruption scandals saw its dominance nationwide eroded and Mr Zuma’s own hometown Nkandla in the hands of a rival party. ...